Pour-over

Kalita Wave

Name: Kalita Wave, after Drop Coffee · adapted by Bunchum
Yield: 260 g
Ingredients: 16 g coffee; 260 g water

after Drop Coffee · adapted by Bunchum

Coffee : water

1:16.3

16 to 260 gBloom and 4 pours, 2:45 to 3:00 in total.

What it brings out

Clarity ours

Brewsign in to brew it

Roast

Light
Medium
Dark

Light to medium. Our reading; the source names no roast.

Provenance

Drop Coffee's small Kalita Wave: a bloom until the bubbling stops, then a pour every 30 seconds.

Source

Drop Coffee: This is how we brew Kalita Wave (opens in a new tab)

Tips draw on (7)

What we changed: Temperature: middle of the 92 to 96 °C range; bloom: middle of 40 to 50 g. Both our choice.

Values per Drop Coffee, unless marked "ours".

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Steps

before
Rinse the filter
Rinse the paper with hot water.
after
Bloom45 g ours
Pour 45 g so all the coffee is wet. Wait 20 to 30 seconds, until it stops bubbling.
after
Pour 1to 100 g
Pour up to 100 g.
after
Pour 2to 150 g
When the clock reads 1:00, pour up to 150 g.
after
Pour 3to 200 g
At 1:30, pour up to 200 g.
after
Pour 4to 260 g
At 2:00, pour the rest, up to 260 g. Never let the bed run dry between pours.
after
Drawdown
Let it drain, 2:45 to 3:00 in total.

Adapt as a copy

Four sides of the cup

Clarity: Clean, separated flavours, little sediment. Our reading: A paper filter keeps oils and fine particles out of the cup.

Our tips

For your next brew: try it and taste.

Grind

Medium ours

The page names no grind.

Sour or thin: grind a little finer. Bitter or drying: a little coarser.
moves extraction
Drains much slower than the recipe says: grind coarser. Much faster: finer.
moves extraction

Coffee : water

Water

94 °C ours

Hotter water extracts more: stay hot for light roasts, go cooler for darker ones.
moves extraction

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Pour-over

Kalita Wave

after Drop Coffee · adapted by Bunchum

Coffee : water

1:16.3

16 to 260 gBloom and 4 pours, 2:45 to 3:00 in total.

What it brings out

Clarity ours

Brewsign in to brew it

Roast

Light
Medium
Dark

Light to medium. Our reading; the source names no roast.

Provenance

Drop Coffee's small Kalita Wave: a bloom until the bubbling stops, then a pour every 30 seconds.

Source

Drop Coffee: This is how we brew Kalita Wave (opens in a new tab)

Tips draw on (7)

What we changed: Temperature: middle of the 92 to 96 °C range; bloom: middle of 40 to 50 g. Both our choice.

Values per Drop Coffee, unless marked "ours".

Steps

before
Rinse the filter
Rinse the paper with hot water.
after
Bloom45 g ours
Pour 45 g so all the coffee is wet. Wait 20 to 30 seconds, until it stops bubbling.
after
Pour 1to 100 g
Pour up to 100 g.
after
Pour 2to 150 g
When the clock reads 1:00, pour up to 150 g.
after
Pour 3to 200 g
At 1:30, pour up to 200 g.
after
Pour 4to 260 g
At 2:00, pour the rest, up to 260 g. Never let the bed run dry between pours.
after
Drawdown
Let it drain, 2:45 to 3:00 in total.

Adapt as a copy

Four sides of the cup

Clarity: Clean, separated flavours, little sediment. Our reading: A paper filter keeps oils and fine particles out of the cup.

Our tips

For your next brew: try it and taste.

Grind

Medium ours

The page names no grind.

Sour or thin: grind a little finer. Bitter or drying: a little coarser.
moves extraction
Drains much slower than the recipe says: grind coarser. Much faster: finer.
moves extraction

Coffee : water

Water

94 °C ours

Hotter water extracts more: stay hot for light roasts, go cooler for darker ones.
moves extraction

MAKE IT YOURS

Brew this at your batch size.

Save recipes
Track every brew
Scale to any batch

Kalita Wave, after Drop Coffee · adapted by Bunchum: 1:16.3 · Bunchum